Tag Archives: superfund

Dangerous levels of DDT pollution in the Richmond Harbor

By: Wendi Jonassen | March 16, 2012 – 11:01 am

The Lauritzen Channel has more DDT in it than before the 1996 cleanup, and some fish are turning up with DDT levels in their tissues...

Twelve years after cleanup, DDT still poisons harbor

By: Leah Bartos | December 14, 2009 – 6:01 am

Many fish that swim in the bay contain high levels of mercury and other contaminants, but because of persistent pesticide contamination, eating fish from the...

Toxic legacy persists in Richmond Inner Harbor

By: Leah Bartos | October 22, 2009 – 6:06 am

Banned pesticides, primarily DDT and dieldrin, continue to poison the Richmond Inner Harbor, despite cleanup efforts more than a decade ago.